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| NORTHEASTERN RHODE ISLAND 286 ROCKS AND M I N E R A L S The adjacent towns of Cumberland and Lincoln in northeastern...northeastern Rhode Island offer col lecting in several localities, including the Conklin Limestone quarry, the...the Old Dexter quarry, Diamond Hill, the Route 114 road cut, and the Iron Hill mine. T H E T O W N S H...U M B E R L A N D at the northeast corner of Rhode Island is not so famous mineralogically as Cumberland...there is enough interest ing in this town and in Lincolnâthe adjacent town to the southâto warrant a field |
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| vanadinite (lustrous, drusy, brownish xls on gray quartz rock). ARKANSASâThe following item was sent in by Byron...of Western Grove,in the N.E. section of Newton County. All these are in N . W . Arkansas. "It happened...a very large and interesting one from Lawrence County, Arkansas." CALIFORNIAâEmmett Klopfenstein, Box...plenty of zoisite. One of the dumps near the old lime Kiln is still full of massive topaz, but it's not...strongly radioactive microlite occurs at the Slocum quarry in E. Hampton. A few of the octahedral crystals |
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| most interesting specimen, a 21/2 x 2l/> black tourmaline with green beryl and smoky quartz. The specimen...more. "The Glove Mine is located in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, near the little town of Amado, on the...inches in length. They come from Mt. Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado (altitude of pocket where found over...inches in size, comes from Devil's Head, Douglas County, Colo. Microcline {feldspar). Nice loose xls, averaging...received. These come from Devil's Head, Douglas County, Colo. Garnet (spessartite). Small but gemmy, deep |
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| Little Falls dolostone at exposures in Herkimer County, New Y o r k , and elsewhere. Despite their popularity...complexly zoned, Li-rich pegmatite in Florence County, Wisconsin, has revealed an unusual phosphate assemblage...The northern end is Mn-enriched and contains tourmaline, variety rubellite, lepidolite, lithiophilite...occur in this section, but Feenriched, blue-black tourmaline is found in its place. A l l phosphates occur...distribution correlates strongly with the presence of tourmaline. Lithiophilite, fillowite, and apatite occur |
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| 1 " VE M NlN[W �IUWPS�l- ( MASSACHUSETTS RHODE ISLAND 1 #'vp ,#,V,4 I' vr Go � - PRICE $2...Sloan Maine Vermont New Hampshire Massachusetts Rhode Island PERHAM'S MAINE MINERAL S'toRE INC. JUNCTION...Talc Mine Saxtons River, Vermont Davis Soapstone Quarry South Newfane, Vermont Adams Hill Site NEW HAMPSHIRE... Massachusetts Pfitzer Quarry Ashland, Massachusetts Bayer - Mingolla Quarry Blandford, Massachusetts...Goldmine Brook Site Bolton, Massachusetts Bolton Lime Quarry Granby, Massachusetts Granby Dinosaur Museum |
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| CHIPS AND BITS FROM SOCIETY BULLETINS RHODE ISLAND The Rhode Island Mineral Hunters, Central Falls, had...Field Trip to the Danalite locality and to the Conklin Quarry. ALABAMA Mr. Webster Hipp spoke to the Alabama...Alabama Mineral and Lapidary Society, Birmingham, on "Rock Hunting Out West". GEORGIA Graves Mountain was the...its Field Trip at the Sparvetta Quarry on Route 1 in Chester County, Pennsylvania, near the Maryland...Gem, Lapidary and Mineral Society of Montgomery County, Wheaton. . . . The Gem Cutters Guild of Baltimore |
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| senopyrite in Darien (Fairfield Co.), Levesque, Cross County, Arkansas. The Conn., for over a year. A few weeks...China Lake, Calif. galena. A dull black cellular rock is the spec"So far we have gotten about 15 imen...A H O â "This specimen was found in Twin Falls County about 10 miles south of Hagerman, Idaho. These...and I visited a fairly new limestone quarry in eastern DeKalb County, 111. There were a few small fossils...you to identify. ROCKS AND MINERALS "This new quarry is between Maple Park and Sycamore." â item dated |
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| Nuristan, Afghanistan; Neptunite from San Benito County, California; Spinel from Mogok, Burma; and Emerald...Becker, Thcson, 1976. Dave W ilber and Larry Conklin, Tbcson, 1979. 10 ⌠K. ENGLAND David P. Wilber...specimens that his rockhound father had found while ârock huntingâ in the Bishop area of California. That...world. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County was particularly interesting among the museums...working for gem dealer Ron Romanella in New York; and Rock Currier (owner now of Jewel Tunnel Imports), with |
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| slab of a rock I picked up immediately outside Anchorage, Alaska. An unusual feature of the rock, and there...Maricopa County on Route 80, 5 miles S / W of Gila Bend and the mine is off the road to Painted Rock Dam....country for dumortierite is near Dehesa, San Diego County, California, where beautiful specimens, violet...old maps or directions for reaching BranchviUe Quarry that will take you to U.S. Route 7 between Danbury...yet but believe it to be clevelandite), black tourmaline crystals in radiating groups throughout the feldspar |
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| consternation of a rock col lector who wandered into a meeting whose sign read: ROCK FESTIVAL. The Society...enjoyed by the members present. OTTAWA, CANADA RHODE ISLAND The Canadian Micro Mineral Associa tion announced...announced a series of field trips. The Lachaine Quarry, the McGlashan Mine, the Evans Lou Mine, Bear Lake...fossils of the Alps. Member Bill LaFond of the Rhode Island Mineral Hunt ers, Pawtuckett, spoke to 390...VIRGINIA Blue coral was the objective of the Kanaivha Rock and Gem Club, Charles ton, when the club journeyed |
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| old label indicated the locality only as Sonoma County, California. However in view of it's association...effervesces in HCl, in carbonatites and zeolite-carbonate rock in Khibina and Vuorijarvi alkaline massifs, Kola...know that George Gerhold and Anthony Kampf (LA County Museum) are preparing a CD-ROM of mineral data...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com...page 1 came rather from the Sulfur Bank in Lake County, California where copiapite and the potassium aluminum |
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| of minerals, one of which was a multicolored tourmaline crystal. I was amazed that such things could...quarries in the state of Connecticut. Gem-quality tourmaline crystals had been found in several of the old...like this piece, as most of the fluorites from the quarry are green, and this one is truly atypical. After...COVER: gold on quartz, 4.5 inches tall, Placer County, California Dedication This book is dedicated...Doris L. Behnke, Walter A. Behnke, Lawrence H. Conklin, C. Melanie Duque, Joseph A. Freilich, Michael |
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| 5-7âHoughton, Michigan. 3d Annual Red Metal (Copper County) Retreat. A . E . Seaman Mineralogical Museum....Annual "Fiesta of Gems" sponsored by the Culver City Rock and Mineral Club. Culver City Veterans Memorial...Ute Moun tain Gem & Mineral Society. Montezuma County Annex Bldg., 103 N. Chestnut. Information: John...81328. July 11-22âCosta Mesa, California. Orange County Fair Gems and Minerals Show. Fair grounds, 88...47724. July 20, 21âKeno, Oregon. Rock Swap & Campout sponsored by the Rock & Arrowhead Club of Klamath Falls |
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| A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States NEBRASKA This rectangular Great Plains state rises...overlooks both Colorado and Wyoming. The subsurface rock strata of the entire state are all undisturbed sedimentaries:...borderland from Sheridan Co. to the Wyoming line is good rock hunting country, especially along the southern slopes...of Crawford in Dawes Co. and the rather extensive rock beds east of the Orella railroad sta. ranks among... The Sandhills Museum in town is well worth the rock hunterâs visit. Draws, cuts and breaks in the hills |
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| the Ute Mountain Gem & Mineral Society. Montezuma County Annex Bldg., 103 N. Chestnut. Info.âJohn Ferrin...Mineral & Jewelry Festival sponsored by the Oxford County Mineral & Gem Association. Oxford Fair ground...Oregon. Annual Campout and Swap sponsored by the Rock & Arrowhead Club of Klamath Falls. Pacific Power... Mineral, & Jewelry Show sponsored by the Long Island Mineral & Geological Society. Mattituck H.S., Main...Vassalboro, ME 04962; 207/873-7816. Jury 27, 28â Lincoln City, Oregon. 50th Annual Showâ"The Wonderful World |
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| to work the whole three days. There is wonderful rock and mineral collecting areas near by, even in the...The Cobb County Gem and Mineral Club, Marietta, was host to G i l Withers who told about his rock hunting...The Gem City Rock and Mineral So ciety, Erie, heard new member, Roy Peters, tell of rock hunting in the...Central Pennsylvania Rock and Min eral Club, Harrisburg, went to the Cedar H i l l Quarry. It was so successful...the Club this coming year T h e Mittel Appalachia Rock Club, Middleton Depot, went to Rockhill to "locate |
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| BONANZA Rock collecting, sightseeing and a look at history in Colorado by Steve Voyn ick CONKLIN QUARRY...QUARRY Minerals and gem materials in Rhode Island by James R. Mitchell FEATURES 10 48 51 Page 122 A PICTURE...Vanguard blade. aluminum oxide wheel for sharpening rock picks, chisels, etc. Use fine grit ⢠Handy, adjustable...have cut coru ndum. beryl. garnet, opal. CZ, tourmaline. feldspar , topaz. iolite, spinet. and quartz...Carved aquamarines with 4mm rounds (spheres) of tourmaline and 14k gold beads. A 48" strand . 18x8mm carved |
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| ............. 554 MISCELLANEOUS CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................505 511 514 532 533 551 551 553 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY GEOLOGIC HAZARDS COMMITTEES NAMED Clarence Allen...Pierrepont, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., to swap or dig your own tourmaline plus S other minerals and...Annual Rock Swap at Jo Scholl's Place, North Gorham, Maine. July 26-31, 1965 â Charlotte Rock and MinÂ...sponsor the 25th Annual Convention and Silver Jubilee Rock and Gem Festival of the Midwest Federation of Mineralogical |
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| to amber, on white limestone, occurs in Miller's Lime Pit at Samson, Geneva Co., Ala., so we have been...in the copper mines at Sulzur, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. ARIZONAâ"Bisbee (Cochise Co.), Ariz.,...admission fee on a dirt road which compared to some old quarry roads is a super highway! The x,!s are found in...bornite have been found in gabbro at the old Hubbard quarry in Wilmington (New Castle Co.), Del. FLORIDAâ"I...been found in the Appalachian Minerals Company quarry near Monticello (Jasper Co.), Ga. IDAHOâ"I am enclosing |
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| BITS May the year bring you all many fine days for rock collecting.' In the October issue of ROCKS AND MINERALS...Eastchester, found excellent rhodonite in the Berts Quarry, Plainfield, Mass. Robert Middleton, Earth Science...on silversmithing Member Bob Culver of the Wayne County Gem and Mineral Club, Marion, found a "fair sized"...on the AFMS Uniform Rules. At the Cedar H i l l quarry (Penn.) mem bers found pyrite-octahedral-crystals...Superintendent of all mu seums in Nassau County, spoke with the Long Island Mineral and Geology So ciety, Massapequa |
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| They are sometimes found in town libraries or county buildings. Occasionally club members in a community...limonite, tourmaline, corundum and soapstone. . . . The Catawba Mineral and Artifacts Society, Rock Hill,...Hill. RHODE ISLAND A double barrelled treat for a Field Trip was offered its members by the Rhode Island...many members of the Rock and MillROCKS AND MINERALS eral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fallsington, when...dolomite, graphite, calcite, spinel, serpentine, and tourmaline. . . . Your Corresponding Editor and her husband |
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| was collected in May 1970 by Dietmar Stitz from rock excavated for a bank-building foundation on South...a very aesthetic specimen (fig. 19). On Staten Island an excavation at the foot of the Verrazano-Narrows...on Staten Island, dark red almandine crystals to 20 mm across were found in the 1960s in rock excavated...that was collected at College Point, Queens, in rock that was dumped there from the excavation of the...radiating brown crystals to 10 mm long. On Staten Island large masses of âfibrous serpentineâ throughout |
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| Ohio OHIO Only Paleozoic rock formations underlie Ohioâs Pleistocene surface debris and Quaternary soils...the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.âŻcone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Toddâs Ford, a mineral depositâŻHematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...areas of drainage in 336 A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the Untied States townships of Franklin |
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| Bedrock Geology of Rhode Island o GEOLOGICAL 5. I 09 8* Ci PI O i o TJ i i I to & Ol BULLETIN...State of Rhode Island Development Council i M SURVEY I C.to 1295 Bedrock Geology of Rhode Island...1295 Prepared in cooperation with the State of Rhode Island Development Council Lithology, structure, and...geological studies in Rhode Island____._.________.-__.-_-____. Position of Rhode Island in the Appalachian...-___--_Older gneissic rocks of northwestern Rhode Island.____________ Nipsachuck Gneiss------------- |
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| ready to leave for the Midwest-AFMS Convention at Lincoln, Nebraska about June 1st. Allowing a day or two...relatives and a bit more to "silver pick" at some rock shops we will barely make it. Club Shows have become...Show. Vernon Wertz Welcome to the Imperial Polk County Gem and Mineral Society which meets the second...Limetle Mound. Note: Clubs desiring to field crest quarry on its 1-day annual opening trip here should ascertain...named its bulletin the minerals for display - The Rock and Tarheel Rockhound. The club built 11 Gem Society |
